drupal association quarterly updates for supporters

Supporters Call Q2 2014Megan Sanicki - Associate DirectorJosh Mitchell - CTO

HouseKeeping

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Coming Up

August 29, 2014https://drupal.org/learn-drupal

Agenda

● Supporter Benefits Update● Meet Rachel● Drupal.org Updates

PREMIUM SUPPORTING PARTNERS

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

PREMIUM TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTERS

TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTERS

HOSTING SUPPORTER PROGRAM

Supporter Program Updates

● Aligning Supporting Partner & Tech Supporter Benefits

● Drupal.org Web Ad Benefits○ Premium Supporters - 1 month free web ad○ Premium & Supporters - Web Ad discount

● Further segmenting the Supporter Program○ Hosting Supporter Program○ Offers a security test

● Job Board○ Free job posting

● Early announcements○ DrupalCon Latin America & Los Angeles Sponsorships○ DrupalCon Europe 2016 coming soon

Meet Rachel Friesen

Account Fulfillment Coordinator

Investing in Drupal.org

$1.2 Million Drupal.org investment

Hiring our Drupal.org team

● Since January we have added:○ CTO○ Infrastructure Manager○ Software Engineer○ Dev Ops Engineer○ Content writer○ .5 Support Specialist

● Hiring soon…○ Web designer○ QA Engineer○ Software engineer

New features and improvements

● User paths for all our users - drupal.org/u/joshuami

● CDN deployment - better delivery and page load speeds around the world

● Removing blockers to Drupal 8 - semantic versioning to allow us to release 8.0.x (e.g. 8.0.1)

● Modernization of our infrastructure for better performance and scalability

Reimagining of Drupal.org

● Workshop with Whitney Hess during DrupalCon Austin

● User research interviews - over 30 people will help us build out personas for helping us improve features on Drupal.org

● Working to improve our content and marketing materials for you to use in highlighting Drupal with prospective customers.

Drupal Jobs

● A professional job board to help our community grow

● Free for job seekers

● Affordable options for posting jobs and branded company pages to highlight your organization

● Powerful search tools for job seekers

● Elegant tools for employers to find out what posts are getting viewed

Questions?

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Coming Up

August 29, 2014https://drupal.org/learn-drupal